In one of two years of experiments, the cross-species tumbleweeds ... bold genetics may be less at home in tales of the gunslinger West than in a sci-fi opera of romance at first contact.

A sample lyric: “Hello bottles my old friends / I’ve come to dig you up again.” Hearing about the experiment before ... set them digging about two feet west. After some false alarms ...

Campfire conversations are a melding of ranch life and scientific research at University of Idaho’s Rinker Rock Creek Ranch in the Wood River Valley. Banjo, a horse who throws temper tantrums ...